Coin-package



(No Model.)

G. L. GASTNER.

00m PACKAGE. No. 400,052. Patented Mar. 26, 1889.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE L. OASTNER, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

COIN-PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,052, dated March26, 1889.

Application filed December 13, 1887 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. UASTNER, of Memphis, in the county ofShelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and ImprovedCoin-Holder, of which the followingis a full, clear. and exactdescription.

My invention is an improvement in the class of coin-holders which areformed of paper or other thin flexible material, and adapted to confinethe coin so that a considerable portion thereof is exposed to View.

The construction of the holder is as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 2, and are perspective views ofslightly-differing forms of my invention; and Fig. 4 is a similar viewof a modification.

Those forms shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are each composed of twopartsnamely, the body or coin receiver and holder proper, 1, and thebinder or binding-strip 2. Both parts are made of paper, that being amaterial which may be easily torn, for the purpose of releasing thecoins when desired. The body or holder proper, 1, is made by bending astrip into the form of a rectangle, and the bindingstrip 2 is pasted tothe back of such holder 1, so that it is normally at right angles to theaxis of the opening through the holder 1.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the ends of the body-strip 1 are enlarged onone side, and the binding-strip 2 is. pasted on them. Such enlargementof the ends affords a larger area for adhesion of the binder 2. As shownin Fig. 2, the ends of the body-strip 1 are not enlarged or extended andabut at a point opposite that where the binding-strip 2 is attached.Fig. 3 shows a construction similar to Fig. 1, save that the upper outercorners of the body-strip are rounded instead of square.

Fig. 41 shows the holder proper made of a broad backing-piece, 3, and anarrow strip, 2. The latter is pasted to part 3 at suitable intervals,the intervening portions of the said strip being bent in the form ofthree sides of a rectangle. The part 3 is creased vcrticall y,

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at points between the binding-strips 2, to facilitate tearing ofi aportion of the packet or holder. On the back of the part 3, oppositeeach rectangular pocket thus formed by the strip 1, a binding-strip, 2,is pasted, as shown. At the left-hand end one of the binding-strips isshown in dotted lines folded over coins placed in the contiguous pocketand pasted to the front of strip 1. In this case, as in that of thedevice constructed, as shown in the other figures, the binding-strip andbody-strip are made of less width than the coins designed to becontained in the holder proper, and the latter is also of less cubicalcapacity than the largest cross-section of the coins, so that aportionof the edges and the sides of the outer coins remain visible whensecured in the holder.

Each pocket, whether the device be constructed as shown in one figure oranother, is made of a size adapted to contain a specific number of coinsof the same denomination; but of course the pockets may be made ofvarious sizes regardless of this idea.

l/Vhat I claim is 1. The improved coin-holder composed of thebinding-strip 2 and the holder proper, 1, which is made of a strip whoseends abut each other, the said binding-strip being united to the saidends at right angles to the holder 1, and both the parts 1 and2 beingmade of less width than the coins the holder is designed to contain, andthe holder proper, 1, being made of less cubical capacity thanthelargest cross section of the coins to be contained in it, as shownand described.

2. The combination of a series of bindingstrips, 2, a backing-piece, 3,to which they are pasted, and the strip 1, bent, as shown, and pasted tothe part 3 at points intervening the binding-strips 2, as specified.

GEORGE L. CASTNER.

lVitnesses:

4 M. B. TREZEVANT, C. W. FRAZER, Jr.

